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SAPULPA. CREEK COUNTY. OKLAHOMA MONDAY. AUGUS1 4. 1*4 30
FOUR DOLLARS PER YEAR
MURRAY REVIEWS COSTS OF CAMPAIGN
♦ ♦
SCORCHING SUN PROVES RUINOUS TO CROPS
OFFICIAL
STANDINGS
ARE GIVEN
“Alfalfa Bill’*” Total
Expense Less Than
$2000; Final Count
Announced.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Auk « <IP!—
Although he "hitcn-hiked" from town
lo town during part of his campaign
for the democratic gubernatorial noit! 1
lnatlon, William H "Alfalfa >3111'
Murray spent $1355. 75 to be high
man In Oklahoma's first primary last
Tuesday, he notified the state election
board today
In filing his expence account with
the election board Murray, who term-
ed himself the candidate of the “com-
mon peepul," said: “Since I started
my campaign. I have received from
no corporation or rgent of them, nor
any contractor, one single cent."
llawks Gives Figure*
Sam Hawks. Murray's campaign
manager, told the board that contribu-
tions to Murray's campaign expense;
totaled $1065.
"We had no telephone until the
last few davs of the campaign."
Hawks said. “We hnd no stenographer
except ope to write a few letters.
There hat been no display advertising
We bought few stamps and paid no
workers."
“Murrey listed his campaign ex-
penses as follows: headquarters rent,
four months. $200; contributions to
the Blue Valley Farmer. Murray's
campaign paper, $300; stationery
$138 40: newspaper cut and mats,
$57.50; newspaper notices of speaking
dates. $86.20: handbills. $63.75; radio.'
$120; stenographer, $90; miscellaneous
expenses, $299.60.
State auditor A. 8 J. Shaw, an-
other democratic gubernatorial candi-
date. notified the board he spent
$2986 50.
Senator W B. Pine, incumbent, filed
a report he spent $1500 38 to win the
republican senatorial nomination
Charles J. Benson. Shawnee, one of
Pine's opponents spent $3.80
Reports filed with the election board
today showed the following expenses
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Rye Straw Sayings
By GEORGE BINGHAM
Rural Reporter
BUSY WEEK LONG TRIP
IS PLANNED
BY AIRMAN
BRIGHTEST BOY” LIKES PHYSICS
CONFRONTS
PRESIDENT
Republican Leaders Are
Awaiting Meet Of
National Exec u ti v e
Group Thursday.
WASHINGTON. Aug.
dent Hoover returned
4. <tP>—Presi-
lo the white
Ted Lundgren Will Join
Roger Williams O n
Round-World Fli g h t
This Week.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 ~(IP>—Ted
. . . . J s. Lundgren. air equipment Inventor.
hou*e today from a week-end In Vir- look rff ^ B;3, m FST. today for
puna and began immediate consider*- M#w york where ,1( will sUn Frld ly
tlor. of •, number of important prob- ^ a .found lhe world flwht wlUi
lems- , , . 1 Roger Q Williams, noted aviator.
The agricultural situation was lhe w L 8eU#r> ,)ikll for the
first to receive Mr. Hoover s attention (pmsco Aircraft Corporation, builder
in conferences with S; m H. Thorrp- 0j plane, was at the controls tins
Poke Easley sav> there may be com- 1 son. president of the farm bureau mornij,g aud win ha idle tiiem until
plaint over tne country about a scar- , federation, Louis J. Tuber, master of ,)e tj. &Uppianied hy Williams In the
city cf work, but he'll br-t there is not i the National Grange and C. E Huff, eastern City
a fellow anywhere that tan ..lay I president of the Farmers National Lundgren'.s ship, designed especially
around his wife for five minutes with- j Grain Corporation. 1 f0r his proposed 15 day globe encirc-
out her finding something for him to During the week the president will nng night, carried 750 gallons ol
do. j receive reports on the political situa- j fufl when it left here, appr xlmately
---- . lion from the 26 members of the re- ) gallons under its maximum ca-
Washington Hocks read in his last 1 publican national executive committee i |)acity.
weeks local paper where there hud whe met here Thursday Chairman The filers intended to stop at Kan-
been an uprising ir. China and 14 Claudius H. Hustcn has announced ;as city and then continue to New
lie will submit "his resignation at that: York, reaching there late tonight,
lime. The take off for New York, was
The president faces a number of uneventful. The giant plane elinibed i
other problems. easily from United Airport after a
- short run and disappeared into the
ORANGE. Va . Aug. 4 (IP)—One of | cast.
goes to ailing and worrying over him the bussiest political weeks the capital , To Select Third Man
and losing weight, she wont complain has known since before congress ad-| jn addition to picking up Williams
about it.
Cninese had been killed, all strangers
to him
* • •
Clab Hancock says next, time he
marries he is going to pick a wife that
weighs 300 pounds, so that when she
I;
Globe Circling
Flier Crashes;
Will Try Again
journed confronted President Hoover; (n New York. Lundgren Intents to
today as lie prepared to return to the select a third nrtiin tc> act a roller
white house after a three-day stay at ■ >t and radio operator on the trip,
his Rapldan retreat. The first leg of the flight will be
While republican parly leaders are from Roosevdlt Field. Long Island to
Arthur O. Williams 17 year o.d descendant of Roger Williams, found-
Providence, R I., youth who became or of Rhode Island. Is shown at left
"this year's brightest American boy "‘with Thmas Edison, the Inventor Is,m
NO RELIEF
FROM HEAT
PROMISED
Long Drought Withers
Crops; Mercury A t
New Levels Over
Week End.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 4. OPl—
Scattered clouds guve promise of some
relic! today from the renewed heat
wave which Sunday sent the mercury
up lo new maximum marks
What clouds dotted the horizon to-
1 day were thin and little nope of rain
was held by weather observers.
The mercury rose to record heights
In several sections of the state. Alva,
in the northwest n iiortcd an official
reading of 113. I. was 111 degrees at
Mangum in the southwest pari of the
state. The cities suffered also. At
Tulsa the reading was 107 5; at Mus-
kogee. 107, and at Oklahoma City.
106 A reading of 100 was considered
low for the state.
The last lieat blast delivered a fatal
blow against the withering corn crop
in Oklahoma
The extensive heat wave has caus'd
In tens* suffering and millions of dol-
lars damage to crop* ever the nation.
Many Prostrations Reported
Scores of prostrations were report -
id trom widely separated localities
where temperatures of 100 degrees or
higher went Hinmairvr - — -
WUtrd crop6 were further damaged
by the sultry winds, and merciless
Cooler weather must arrive soon
Stirs; vzst-sz SHKis*!
. cutlve committee, at which acuon is followed by Clarence Chamberlain to be a physicist. Williams, a direc, test winner.
scheduled to be taken upon the and Charles Levme in the Columbia. * --------„ --—-—---------
promised resignation of chairman From Berlin Lundgren and his _ . . ... Tnrvrnc a nr?
j Claudius H Huston. Mr. Hoover ts crew plan to fly to Omsk, Siberia. LIINujLfc. AINU Z.U 1 A MUnULKI) AKL
bringing a few problems of his own and then to Tokio. i IMV’CTl TfirFTHFD RY nK'XFr,TI\/F^
back from his week-end lodge. In a single hop the longest ocean Lll'IIVLL/ lUULinijR DI DL I LL 11V LJ
HARBOR GRACE N F Aug 4 i Chief among these Is the task of tump ever attempted bv a heavier -■-
(LP)_John Henrv Mears whose swift selecting the personnel of the tariff than air plane, the craft will be CHICAGO Aug 4.—(IPV—The mur- murders in Chicago and that in each
durr.act- already wa» "unestlmahle •
Little relief was promised by federal
weather forecasters who said August
ma> bring even higher temperatures
than did July. Local rams tills week,
too light and sculp red to aid ergyrs
materially furnished the moat opti-
mistic netr in the predictions.
The almost unprecedented drv spell
Baseball Results
at Press Time
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 000 010 010—2 8 1
Boston 030 000 OOx—3 K> 1
Sweetland and Davis; Cunningham
ana Spohrer. ODoul homer first 8th
New York 100 100 0
Brooklyn 000 300 0
Fitzsimmons and Hogan: Clark and
Lopez.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago . 000 00
Detroit 002 10
Lyons and Tate; Sorrell and Hay-
worth.
Boston 030 010
Philadelphia Ml 000
I icr.rh»» smith nnd Deny. Grev"
and Cochrane. (3rove homer 2nd
WATER SHORTAGE THREATENS
plane was shattered yesterday on the fommUslon. Filling the six posts on headed from Tokio to Seattle by way ders cf Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago -i.se It was gangsters of the Moran- hrouvht another hazard—forest fires—
takeoff on the second leg of a pro-I thia lmP°rt£ult bi-partisan body ha- of the Aleutian Islands. Tribune reporter and Jack Zuta, north Aieilo-Zuta north side forces who to Michigan Mon'.ans and Idaho
jected round the world flight expects Hoved one of the knottiest problems Lundgren has been preparing for Me gang chieftain definlt-ly were used them to carry guns and am-• W]iere volunteers aid forest rangers
tc try agair soon the PresltieHI has faced tnus far. Five his trip for months and his ship was linked together today bv police and munition. fought large timber blazes if was
II the veteran clobe-trotter's bark- ,npn already have turned down the constructed secretly. officials Investigating both These apparently trivial discover- frarrd the sit„atlon wruld be aggra-
t rs uie willing he said todav an- I championship. It. is understood. | The plane has a 420 horse power ‘ Find the man who killed L'ngle ies. the Investigators reasoned, were VaUd by lack of rain
mer* shin will be fitted for the veil-I Puwrr Commission Pends Wamp motcr. Fully loaded and jn a pedestrian subway eight week# in reality so important they po nt- i Dry SueII In 4th Week
tore and a new attempt will be made ! Then' t0°- thrre the lnaltPr of the equipped it will weight approximate- ag0 today and y0UTl flnd one of the -Mo a .solution of the whole Lingle- The dry speU ls (nWTing its fourth
fn canture tne -need record for en- reorganized power commission. Mr ly 12.000 pounds It has a cruising seVen men who killed Zuta In a ho- Zuta tangle. we,,k ln maliv ?rfM und ,,astu.t.s
Hoover Is expected to announce short- speed of approximately 100 miles an tei resort at Delafield, Wis., last Fri- Zuta engineered the Lingle mur- ^avp been so dried out as to lower
hour. day." was the word given out by Chief der. was their first deduction. He did butter and cr»am production to a
Providing the Lundgren plane investigator Pat Roche of the state: this, they d-rln-d becaua(. Lingle Pyt(.nt Thera has be»n no rniii
reaches Tokio without mishap a race attorney's office. . 's a friend of Alphonse "Scarfact for 7- daVs within a 100 mile radius
seems probable between his plane and Roclie went to Delafield and Wauk- 1 Al” Capone. Zu.u's enemy, and Ling- 0f Memphis. Tenn. where $25,000,000
that of Harold Bromley. yesterday to aid Bheritt , le was dangerous to Zuta because as crop damage was reported
TAMAnnAHf u Br.omIsy no*’ Jf ^™ute *? phllliP Herbrand in his investigation a racketeer and friend of the police serious water shortages also were
FOR TOMORROW by steamer^and should have his plan. of thp Zuta siay1ng. be hindered north side activities. 1 reported In several Hates today as the
_ reassembled about the time Lund- Their discoveries led. they said, to Zuta was one of the first men ar- present heat wav- went Into Its third
PAIR HELD FOR WRONGFUL gren plans 10 arnVe 1,1 JaP8*'- a belief Zuta may have "been put rested after the Lingle slaying. The da,.
NXIIAKTK IIL iu OK VOTK A prlzp of *28 000 htts been posttxl on the spit" by a woman who "doub- word went out through gatigland Renrescntative temoeratureK from
' cLnncm 1 >« . »«• 1, crosS- u. m. u. «... u»t h, • z«u h.d th« «„■
stop flight across the Pacific. - -■ -----*- 1 ——*—-----
LITTLE ROCK. Ark , Aug. 4. (IP)—
A water shortage was threatened in
sections of Arkansas today os streams
reached their lowest levels ln years
as a result of a 74 day drouth
State agricultural authorities esti-
mated crop damage due to the drouth
was being increased by hundreds of
thousands of dollars each day.
circling lhe earth—a record which
Mears held twice and which now
rests with the Graf Zeppelin.
In the crash yesterday, which oc-
curred just before dawn as the air-
plane "City of New York" was taking
off for Dublin, Meal's and his pilot.
Henry J. Brown, escaped with minor
injuries, but the plane was wrecked
as it blew a tiro and swerved into the
stones at the side of the runway.
“Downhearted?" Mears said after
the accident. Not a little bit. These
happenings and incidents are in-
separable from the game of aerial
adventures
Mears' chief concern, outside his
plane, appeared to b- the whereabouts
of ills terrier mascot. Tailwind II..
which disappeared after the crash,
i Searching parties were sent to look
1 (nr (he dog.
Mears and biow.i Ief‘ P«nsevelt
Field, L. I., at dawn Saturday for
Harbor Grace where they landed at
3:20 p. m.. EST- making tile 1 100
miles at an average speed of about
(Continued on Page 5)
MARTIN, JONES
CASE ON SLATE
gangsters the ideal time to assassin- utatioa anyway. I eluded: 8|irliigfieid 111.. 102: MadUon
ate him The woman in the case was a mys- Concordia. Iowa. 108' Devils
They also attached Importance to (pricus one to whorh Zuta made nu- r.ake. N D. 94: Huron. 8 D 104;
the finding near Delafield cf a golf merous telephone calLs while he war Kansas Citv Mo. 107: Little Rock
bag which contained five shotgun registered at the Delafield hotel un- ^ilc 9#; Moorhead Minn 88 Allin-
shells of the tyi>e used in the Zuta der an assumed name. This woman, |
the police believed, pretended to re-1
(Continued on Page 4)
D. A. Martin, formerly inspector on ^
the election board in ward 2. precinct Complaints Filed
2. cf this city, and D. B. Jones, r , o I? 0*1
registrar in that precinct will be Against j. L. Klley
given a preliminary hearing before ___
justice of the peace E. O. Wolffarth u,™ fiipj ln the killing. _ . . , „ . .. . . . ,
at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning on a C,UI, of JusUve of the Peace E. O. It was recalled that golf bags play- hiT emj mo've^ PASTOR HIGHLY
P^nre°ef reeK rRtkii?0 Wolffarth Saturday, charging S. E «i an important part In several re-, she could lllf rm hLs Iorrapr friend.,
issuance of a regUretinn certificate R.,py wHh emploving female work- wnt gailgland murders or attempted when to strike,
not entitled to vote. ers more than nine hours a day.
for a person
Uife h??ring will
be conducted ln
Riley, a restaurant proprietor. Is the
the county court room. Th- '"ise had -„„^nd sapulpan to be cited for al-
been set for trial at 9 o'clock this ,egpd vlolauou ol ine law {eHu......
morning, but was continued until to- that women be employed no more
OUR WMTMFPAMV
COMMENDED BY
MINISTERS HERE
115 m\les an hour. The globe-circling : morrow when countv attorney Wullace than nine hours a day.
record of the Graf Zepoelin is 2t
I days, 7 hours and 34 minutes
ARCHBISHOP DIES IN BERNE
SUN POPS CORN
LONGVIEW. Tex . Aug 4. (LP)— As
evidence of I Ac heat wave, an ear of
popcorn was 'on display here today,
almost entirely popped into white
flakes by the heat of the run on the
farm from which It was gathered.
F. Pardoe stated that the case was Thp case wi]1 be heard August
without his knowledge, and that the JlUiUcP of the ueace said
he had no notice of it until today
Wolffarth said that tne case hud
been set before a transcript was DIVORCES DECREED
MILWAUKEE. Wis.. Aug. 4.—4LP>—• brought to his office from the court Three divorce- were granted in the
Archbishop Sebastain G. Messmer, 83, of Justice of the lieace. W O. Ray district court her1 today. Walter C.
died early today at his boyhood home late Saturday. Prnnkard obtained a divorce from
in Berne. Switzerland, where he had Jones and Martin both made bond Lottie O Prnnkard. Pearl Graham
gone to visit less than a month ago. Saturday for their appearance for obtained a divorce from Bill Graham
Msgr. Bernard O Traudt, vicar- trial. Jones' bond was signed bv an-; obtained custody of their minor
■ General of the Catholic diocese, an- Harry Rogers. Martin's bond was cni.d Jessie Law obtained a divorce
nouneed today. signed by M. B Jones. from Raymond Laws.
OUT OF FRYING PAN
C.RFENFIELD. Ma>s <LP)— After
Louis J Merz. allegid drunken driver,
had escaped from a policeman, he
hailed an automobile in quest of a . , „ . . ..
ride It happened that an occupant ‘x''0" the prlmary elcct,on-
of the machine was the policeman Voters are determining the course
from whom Mere had escaped a short, they are to follow and candidates in
time before Merz was rearrested and | the run.0fft having shaped their
OKLAHOMA Paitlv cloudy to-
night. not sc warm east portion
Tuesday partly cicudx.
CHILD KILLS PLAYMATE
R.v 3
iN nk.UlKLl. Olk-ii DULL. R M F
Candidates Push Run-Off Campaigns To Close
V.L™, r—... 0: •
I church, south, cf this
- city; Rev T. E. Webb, pastor of the
DENVER. Colo Aug 4 (LP)—Six pirst Methodist church and Rev. R.
ye ir old Rose May Ftheridgc was dead Frank Mitchell, pastor of the Pres-
loday. slain by *1 tinec-year old pliy- bvterian church as the committee ot
mate during 3 quarrel over a rag doll the ministerial association of 8a-
' Rose May stole my rag doll—so I pulpa have given highest praise to
shot her." was the ample explanation the work done here by Rev. F R.
of the slaying given by tiny Gloria McConnell of the Nazarene church.
Utter. who is leaving for a new field m
Authorities were perplexed over dis- Sp.kane Wash,
position Qt the case. A Colorado sta- In expressing their regret of losing
tute sets the age of 10 years as the so valuable a citizen the following
minimum for punishment of such a sums up briefly McConnell's activi-
erime , ties: "During the period of five years
that Mr. McConnell has been pastor
of the local Nazarene church he has
been faithful and helpful In serving
the community in city-wide move-
ments of civic, educational, patriot-
ic and charitable nature."
in court paid a $100 fine.
ANOTHER EXCUSE
PROVIDENCF. R. I (LP)— ‘T w'a# , precincts aie epen
afraid the machine wouldn't start it I second round next Tuesday-
stopped it. so I kept right on going.' Although Thomas S. Harris and
Ricardo Colnlurp explained when ar-1 oaylord R. Wilcox, strong contenders
lestedd on a reckhss driving charge. f0r the district Judge's post ln di-
There is only one week ljft now vision number 2, could not announce
their itineraries over the county this
morning, they will both conduct a
speaking campaign this week that will
take them tn all localities.
Organization forces were rounding
their plans out too, in both races
and were at work even the latter
part of last week feeling out votes.
T. L. Blakcmore. defeated candidate
<n the primary has declared hlnuplt
a strong supporter of Wilcox and
has pledged his whole-souled efforts
campaigns, are preparing to make a
final tour of the county in an effort
| to swing the ballot to them when
for voting in Ure
in his behalf. Sinoe the week end
however, before the primary Blake-
lore has been confined to his bed
vlth sciatic rheumatism. He Ls ex-
nected to be out once again and over
the county bpfore the middle of the
week.
Mrs. I. L. Huff, militant political
crusader against Harris has declar-
ed that she will continue with her
barrage against the men she be-
lieves unfitted for the offices they
l seek. Although her Itinerary was noi
I obtainable it was indicated that no
' pot in Creek county would be un-
1 known to her by the end of this
j week.
Bcause at the heated district Judge's
' race this campaign still remains fore-
| most in the mind of the voters. An-
ther warmly contested program Was
I that of Fletcher Johnson, of Bristow
state senate aspirant. This race too
conrnues to hold the spotlight ln
Cre'k county's political wrangling#
, George Jennings, the home candi-
date will scour this county and Payne
ln a last effort to land the nomina-
tion for state senator Johnson, his
opponent has been the target ot
many attacks launched by Mrs. Hull
Under the guidance of the Good Gov-
rnment League of the county Mrs
Huff will continue her fight agalnsi
the Bristow man, It ls said.
This week promises 1, be one ot
he most outstanding of any in th*
impalsns to date since the party
nom'nations hang in the balance un-
til the vote Tuesday.
QUAKES ARE RECORDED
NFW YORK. Aug. 4—<LP>—'Two
earthquake shocks. d'scribed ?:
"rather more violent Uian the Ital-
ian ones" were recorded bv the sete-
mneraph at Fordhim Untvprvtv
1:12 a. m . and 1.19 a. m. DST to-
day.
The distance was about 3000 miles
from Nrw York, according to univer-
sity officials, and the location cf the
shocks was probably ln south Cen-
tral America.
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